My plans for tomorrow

DD wants lobster for

Well, if it costs as much as it does here, that would be my DD's entire BD present!

How old is she this year? 10?

Anyway - have fun!

Linda

$8 per pound for littler ones, more for the big ones

And I'll try

Wow - that's cheap! We pay $15 a pound!

That's because yours have to pay airfare. Cheryl's just drive in from the coast. :)

Or we can go to the coast... Cheryl

Please post a picture of the lobsters driving in from the coast. I have this vision of a pretty red lobster (cooked of course) behind the wheel of a royal blue convertible, with little sunglasses on it's bulgy eyes.

Giggling hysterically....

You inland people you should come out to the coast more often, quite surprising what you can see lol

Do you mean LIVE lobster that you throw into boiling water?

Dora the squeamish one.

Me too--I won't cook one, but I'll eat it if it's cut up and looks as though it never lived.

I know, that's dopey thinking, but it's my problem and I have no particular feelings about someone else doing it..

Back in my diving days I once nabbed a 16.6kg (29lbs) lobster. In the end, because there was no chance he would fit in the pot, we put him in a very hot oven - well David did - I hurriedly left the kitchen !

I have a lovely movie of one of my grandsons looking at this lobbie and yelling there was a monster on the sun deck. Come to think of it, he is just 18 and was about 3 then, so fifteen years ago or so.

Yes, and no doubt she'll want to pick it out and drop in herself... C

Please, stop making me jealous! Deb

How would it cook? In it's own juices or did you put it in some kind of a roaster and steam it? I've seen pictures of some monsters that come out of the Bay...there was no way that they would fit into a lobster trap! :)

Mavia

Never throw the little beasts, put them cefully in the water, on their back I have been told. However Sheena is the Queen of the Lobsters, and she can tell you how to cook them to perfection, and then serve then in an elegant contortion!

Lobsters tend to be cheaper now, because they have been shedding, and are not the full hard-shell critters. In Maine last monh I managed to get a couple of lovely hard-shell lobsters from a lobsterman at about $8 a pound, end of season.

Gillian

Cheryl i wish you alovely creative day , and time to rest it bit !!!! mirjam

I spent a little time stitching, repotted a houseplant, got two rooms thoroughly vacuumed (trust me, I really wanted to do that), reorganized some of my magazines, did some laundry, checked out a shed for sale (left it there), bought a perennial and some garden soil - big project on tap for the weekend. AND I WAS ALONE!

Today - I must remember to buy DD a couple of b'day cards, something to wrap the new (hockey) gloves in and keep my fingers crossed her camera arrives today or tomorrow. And I'm going to hit my favorite farm stand and get some more tomatoes.... And maybe even get those glasses.

Cheryl

I confess I did not stay to watch, he was okay, but on the tough side. Having tried all sizes, the sweetest are around 500-700 grams.

When I was at the Lunenburg Fisheries Museum at one point and I saw a chart of lobbie sizes and that guy would have been around 80 years old, so likely no matter how he was cooked he was only good for salad or sandwiches!

Latterly I even had a trap which I placed off the dock and would check beneath the waves. One time a huge lobbie, maybe around 6 kilos had her head stuck in the hole. It took a lot of energy to free her, but she was allowed to go as her belly was covered in eggs. Apart from the eggs, after the big guy, we were agreed to leave the biggies go as they were not the tastiest.

Lol - something people overlook is that the lobbie has to shed each year so it can keep growing. It seems that there is less lobbie inside because the shell has room for growth and we found there was no deterioration in flavour just because it was in a new shell. We even had some where beneath the hard outer shell was the soft new one, so it was just about to shed.